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  • Thumbnail for Mast (sailing)
    afore, it may be rigged to the bowsprit. Sections: fore-mast lower, fore topmast, fore topgallant mast Main-mast: the tallest mast, usually located near...
    21 KB (2,617 words) - 00:43, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Topgallant sail
    On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail (topgallant alone pronounced "t'gallant", topgallant sail pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged...
    1 KB (151 words) - 13:05, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jibboom
    of the jib and flying jib sails, respectively, and the stay for the fore topgallant mast and the royal stay. In yachts it is a boom attached to the foot...
    5 KB (636 words) - 15:02, 2 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fore-and-aft rig
    A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel...
    5 KB (519 words) - 18:18, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Full-rigged ship
    ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant. Other large, multi-masted sailing vessels may be regarded as "ships"...
    8 KB (995 words) - 22:47, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rig (sailing)
    above the lowest sail on the fore, main and mizzens masts) were mounted on separate mast segments—"topmasts" or "topgallant masts"—held in wooden sockets...
    34 KB (4,281 words) - 03:49, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sail plan
    main-topgallant, and main-royal (...staysail). Staysails between other masts are similarly named. The mizzen sail (or "spanker") is a gaff-rigged, fore-and-aft...
    8 KB (861 words) - 01:11, 25 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Top (sailing ship)
    imagination – above the mainmast (for example) is the main-topmast, main-topgallant-mast and main-royal-mast, so that the top is actually about 1/4 to 1/3...
    3 KB (412 words) - 02:11, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sailing ship
    are: Fore-mast — the mast nearest the bow, or the mast forward of the main-mast with sections: fore-mast lower, fore topmast, and fore topgallant mast...
    75 KB (7,913 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Minotaur (1863)
    as they were leaving Belfast Lough. Minotaur lost her bowsprit and fore topgallant mast, but Bellerophon only suffered some minor flooding. She paid off...
    14 KB (1,682 words) - 16:50, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earl of Pembroke (tall ship)
    Main Topgallant 45.6 Main Staysail 40.6 Main Topmast Staysail 46.8 Main Topgallant Staysail 37.7 Forecourse 54.3 Fore Topsail 89.6 Fore Topgallant 44.9...
    11 KB (664 words) - 11:29, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Staysail
    runs forward and downwards from the top of the mizzen topgallant mast is the mizzen topgallant staysail. If two staysails are hoisted to different points...
    3 KB (466 words) - 01:21, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deadeye
    A single deadeye (or bull's eye) used to change the direction of a line, in this case a buntline on Prince William's fore-topgallant....
    4 KB (531 words) - 07:24, 15 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Preussen (ship)
    seriously damaged and lost much of her forward rigging (bowsprit, fore topgallant mast), making it impossible to steer the ship to safety. Brighton returned...
    18 KB (1,820 words) - 07:46, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for RRS Discovery
    removing all the yards from the ship's mainmast and taking down the fore topgallant yards and storing them on the deck to both reduce the centre of gravity...
    65 KB (9,548 words) - 09:28, 24 August 2024
  • set on stays running from the fore topmast to the bowsprit, or the fore topgallant mast to the jibboom or even the fore royal mast to the flying jibboom...
    7 KB (908 words) - 06:46, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Standing rigging
    mast, and topgallant mast. This construction relied heavily on support by a complex array of stays and shrouds. Each stay in either the fore-and-aft or...
    7 KB (709 words) - 17:58, 27 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Schooner
    foremast, to which may be added a topgallant. Differing definitions leave uncertain whether the addition of a fore course would make such a vessel a brigantine...
    12 KB (1,373 words) - 22:08, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Ark (ship)
    Spritsail& spritsail topsail, fore course, fore topsail & fore topgallant, main course, main topsail and main topgallant, Lateen mizzen with square topsail...
    15 KB (1,585 words) - 11:41, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blackadder (clipper)
    The royal yard came loose and fell, bringing with it part of the fore topgallant mast. Over the next three days the crew managed to salvage enough yards...
    13 KB (1,509 words) - 04:21, 17 December 2023
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